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Above is an image related to one of the news stories we have followed this past week. Do you know what it shows?Doug Mills/The New York Times

How well did you follow the news this past week? How many of these 10 questions can you get right?

Please note: Our next weekly news quiz will cover two weeks of news and will publish on Feb. 27.

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Rob Porter on Monday at Joint Base Andrews. He resigned from the White House on Wednesday.Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

, the White House staff secretary, abruptly departed the West Wing on Feb. 8, one day after John F. Kelly, the chief of staff, and other senior officials had issued statements defending him and said they would prefer that he remain in his post. He has been accused of domestic violence by two ex-wives.

Rob Porter

Anthony Scaramucci

Stephen Bannon

Tom Price

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Speaker Paul D. Ryan arriving to vote on Friday. He expressed support for bringing a debate on immigration to the House floor.Eric Thayer for The New York Times

President Trump on Feb. 9 signed into law a far-reaching budget deal that will boost spending by hundreds of billions of dollars and allow the federal government to reopen .

while offering hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers” a path to citizenship

in three weeks

while laying off thousands of federal employees

after a brief shutdown

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The unified Korean team marching in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium.James Hill for The New York Times

The opening ceremony in , of the 23rd Winter Olympics unfurled in frigid temperatures and high spirits on Feb. 9, as athletes from the two Koreas marched into the stadium together less than 50 miles from the heavily fortified border between their nations, offering hope of a breakthrough in a tense, geopolitical standoff that has stirred fears of nuclear conflict.

Pyongyang, North Korea

Pyeongchang, South Korea

Beijing, China

Tokyo, Japan

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President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, third from right, meeting on Saturday with Kim Yo-jong, second from left, in Seoul with other officials. Ms. Kim relayed an invitation from her brother, Kim Jong-un, to Mr. Moon.Yonhap, via Agence France-Presse &mdash; Getty Images

North Korea’s reclusive leader, , extended an extremely rare invitation to a foreign head of state on Feb. 10, using the diplomatic opening created by the Olympics in South Korea to ask its leader, President , to visit the North for a summit meeting.

Kim Il-sung; Syngman Rhee

Kim Jong-il; Park Geun-hye

Kim Jong-un; Moon Jae-in

Sun Myung Moon; Park Jae-sang, otherwise known as Psy,

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Kim was greeted by her family including her mother, at the bottom of the pipe.Margaret Cheatham Williams/The New York Times

Also making news at the Winter Games, two 17-year-old Americans, Chloe Kim and Red Gerard, won Olympic gold in events.

figure skating

snowboarding

alpine skiing

luge

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President Trump’s actions on the Democratic memo raise the specter of a showdown with Congress.Tom Brenner/The New York Times

President Trump on Feb. 9 blocked the release of a classified rebutting Republican claims that top federal law enforcement officials had abused their powers in spying on a former Trump campaign aide, a move that Democrats denounced as politically motivated hypocrisy.

From the same pad where NASA launched rockets that carried astronauts to the moon, a big, new American rocket arced into space on Feb. 6. But this time, NASA was not involved. The rocket, the Falcon Heavy, was built by .

Roscosmos, the Russian space agency

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SpaceX, founded and run by the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk

Virgin Galactic, founded by Richard Branson

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Pieces of an Israeli F-16 that crashed in northern Israel on Saturday after coming under antiaircraft fire. The pilot ejected, according to a military spokesman.Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse &mdash; Getty Images

clashed with Syrian and Iranian military forces on Feb. 10 in a series of audacious cross-border strikes that could mark a dangerous new phase in Syria’s long civil war.

China

Saudi Arabia

Israel

Egypt

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From left, Kim Sajet, director of the National Gallery; Kehinde Wiley; President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama; Amy Sherald; David Skorton, secretary of the Smithsonian, with the portraits during the unveiling ceremony on Feb. 12.Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

Former President Barack Obama unveiled his official portrait on Feb. 12 with the help of its painter, . The portrait of Michelle Obama was painted by .

John Singer Sargent; Frida Kahlo

Andy Warhol; Georgia O'Keeffe

Norman Rockwell; Yayoi Kusama

Kehinde Wiley; Amy Sherald

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Nic Lehoux

Three of the news stories listed below were recently published in The New York Times. One is from the satirical site The Onion. Which is the fake news story?

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